All 9 Uses

narrative
in
The House of the Seven Gables
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The narrative, it may be, is woven of so humble a texture as to require this advantage, and, at the same time, to render it the more difficult of attainment.†
Chpt Pref.

narrative = story
The reader may perhaps choose to assign an actual locality to the imaginary events of this narrative.†
Chpt Pref. *
Were these to be worthily recounted, they would form a narrative of no small interest and instruction, and possessing, moreover, a certain remarkable unity, which might almost seem the result of artistic arrangement.†
Chpt 1
And now—in a very humble way, as will be seen—we proceed to open our narrative.†
Chpt 1
Whether the Judge in any degree resembled him, the further progress of our narrative may show.†
Chpt 8
Within a few days after the appearance of this remarkable inmate, the routine of life had established itself with a good deal of uniformity in the old house of our narrative.†
Chpt 9
The wild, chimney-corner legend (which, without copying all its extravagances, my narrative essentially follows) here gives an account of some very strange behavior on the part of Colonel Pyncheon's portrait.†
Chpt 13
On the doorstep, she met the little urchin whose marvellous feats of gastronomy have been recorded in the earlier pages of our narrative.†
Chpt 14
According to this version of the story, Judge Pyncheon, exemplary as we have portrayed him in our narrative, was, in his youth, an apparently irreclaimable scapegrace.†
Chpt 21

Definitions:

(1) (narrative as in: Narrative of the Life of...)
a story; or related to a story
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)